Goldman Sachs Expected to Layoff 3,200 Employees 高盛集團傳將大規模裁員 估影響3200人

According to foreign media, multinational investment bank Goldman Sachs is expected to lay off more than 3,000 employees this week. 

Multinational investment bank Goldman Sachs has reported large-scale layoffs! According to foreign reports, Goldman Sachs is expected to cut 3,200 jobs this week, more than a third of which may come from the core trading and banking operations. Analysts believe that news of Goldman Sachs' layoffs should come as no surprise to most investors, because the investment banking business itself was extremely challenging in 2022. Not only Goldman Sachs, but the entire industry is facing difficulties.

Stephen Biggar, Director of Financial Institutions Research, Argus Research: “So most of the banks have held on to folks for the better part of three quarters here during the downturn. And I think that really says also is that they don't expect the environment to improve very much in the coming quarters, or they wouldn't be, you know, jettisoning a staff at this point.”

Previously, many investment banks, including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Citigroup, successively announced that they would slash their year-end bonuses. Analysts also warned that this wave of layoffs may spread to the entire financial industry. The financial market has performed significantly well from 2020 to the first half of 2022, benefiting from real estate investments and the quantitative easing policy of the U.S. Federal Reserve. However, as countries have resorted to raising interest rates in order to curb inflation, global economies have also followed suit into a possible recession.

Gerard Cassidy, Head of Equity Bank Strategy, RBC Capital Markets: “As it was called, housing in the financial markets benefited dramatically. Now they've had big pullbacks and as a result, there needs to be an adjustment for the expense levels, primarily employees, that has to be lowered to the reality of the new markets, which are lower valuations than what we saw about a year ago.”

The last large-scale layoffs at Goldman Sachs were during the 2008 financial crisis. This latest wave of layoffs has spread from the technology industry to Wall Street banks. E-commerce giant Amazon laid off at least 18,000 people in one go at the beginning of this year. According to statistics, a total of 1,020 technology companies laid off 150,000 employees last year. This year, nearly 18,000 people have been laid off from the tech industry already and the number is expected to rise. 

跨國投資銀行高盛集團，傳出大規模裁員消息。根據外電報導，高盛本週預計將裁員3200人，其中超過三分之一可能來自核心的交易和銀行部門。分析師認為，高盛裁員的消息，對大多數投資者來說，應該不足為奇，因為2022年投資銀行的業務本身就極具挑戰性，不只高盛，整個產業都面臨困境。

金融機構研究總監畢嘉德表示：「因此在景氣低迷的時期，大多數銀行都留住大部分員工，我認為這也確實表明，他們不期待未來幾季會出現大轉變，否則他們不會在這個時候裁員。」

此前包括高盛、摩根大通、花旗等多家投資銀行與投顧公司，相繼宣布大砍年終獎金；分析師也預警，這波裁員風暴，恐將蔓延整金融業。雖然2020年到2022的上半年，受益於房地產投資業務，以及美國聯準會量化寬鬆政策，讓金融場有顯著起色；但隨著各國為了抑制通膨，紛紛祭出升息手段，景氣也跟著陷入衰退陰影。

資產管理分析師卡西迪指出：「正如金融市場從房產中受益匪淺，現在已經大幅拉回，因此需要對花費進行調整，主要在員工方面，必須配合新的市場環境降低，這比我們1年前預估的還要低。」

高盛前一次大規模裁員，已經是2008年金融危機時。這波裁員風暴，從科技業吹進華爾街，年初電商巨頭亞馬遜，一口氣裁員至少1萬8000人；根據統計，去（2022）年共有1020家科技公司裁員，人數超過15萬人，今年至今已裁員近1萬8000人，數字預料還會攀升。